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Título : A small jade figure from the Olmecan culture
Creador: Vela Amieva, Marcela Beatríz
Nivel de acceso: Open access
Palabras clave : Hipotiroidismo Congénito - historia
Historia antigua
Indios de Norte América - Historia
Medicina en el arte
México
Congenital Hypothyroidism - history
History, Ancient
Indians, North American - history
Medicine in Art
Mexico
Sculpture - history
Arte Olmeca
hipotiroidismo congénito
retraso mental
tamiz neonatal
Olmec art
Congenital hypothyroidism
Mental retardation
Neonatal screening
Descripción : In this paper some reflections motivated by a prehispanic Olmec stone sculpture that was found in the Mexican state of Veracruz by 1940, are presented. This small figure of the prehispanic art, could be the representation, this is "a portrait", of a person with similar features to those present in patients with congenital hypothyroidism. This features include short stature, coarse face, eyelid edema and expression of the mental retardation, so this would be one more example of the acute clinical observation of ancient Mexicans and maybe a testimony of a continuous prevalence from remote times until nowadays of a defect that put a lot of human beings in great disadvantage, disability that has almost disappear thanks to neonatal screening
Fecha de publicación : 2003
Tipo de publicación: Artículo
Formato: pdf
Fuente: Rev Invest Clin 55(1):87-89
URI : http://repositorio.pediatria.gob.mx:8180/handle/20.500.12103/2376
Idioma: spa
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